I have been an LCSW for 28 years. My background is rich and varied. My passion and skill set is helping individuals not only gain insight into thoughts, feelings and behaviors but to help the individual learn to feel their unique worth and value. It's one thing to understand what is contributing to ongoing negative feelings and behaviors but it's another thing entirely to feel contentment and a true sense of worth. I've counseled both men and women around domestic violence issues, counseled families of chronically ill patients and more recently provided therapy to children and adolescents in a school setting. My preferred therapeutic modalities are Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Attachment-Based Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy based skills.
Additional areas of focus: LGBT, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse, Grief, Parenting issues, Self esteem, ADHD, Adoption and foster care, Aging and geriatric issues, Attachment issues, Body image, Caregiver issues and stress, Communication problems, Domestic violence, Eating and food-related issues, Family of origin issues, Fertility issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Midlife crisis, Mood disorders, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Postpartum depression, Pregnancy and childbirth, Self-love, Social anxiety and phobia, Women's issues, Workplace issues, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Attachment-Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
NC LCSW C004486